Hi all. In case you're wondering why there are no long personalized reports for 2006 or 2007 for each sign, here's the story. I got part way through the 2006 reports back in late 2005 then was overwhelmed with work, preventing me from completing them. I was creating reports over a thousand words in length, and just cannot do that much composition any more for free, given how much I'm composing for this site. I didn't even try this year. So if you want to know what's in store for your sign in 2007, please go to this link, where I've got several posts addressing all signs, as well as each sign individually, both Western and Chinese. Those are the only free reports at present. Those who want personalized longer forecasts have to contact me for a personal (paid) session.

I offer this reprint since it seems that many have recently ended relationships, or are dealing with past relationship memories that aren't going away gracefully. Though some of the aspects I wrote about have ended, others are still in full force. For your consideration, An Open Letter About Ending Relationships and Beginning New Ones.

Most people with a basic knowledge of astrology are aware that the planets make aspects to each other, and that these angular relationships between the planets affect us all, from kitty cats to weather patterns to international affairs. We know that aspects matter, whether the fusions and beginnings of conjunctions, the polarizations and realizations of oppositions, the gifts and specializations of quintiles, the turning points of squares, or other angles showing phases of our personal evolution as well as larger cycles of change in our world. There are "hot zones" that occur for everyone, and I offer when these occur so you can surf the generic storm patterns with a minimum of problems. However, even as planets aspect each other in the heavens, they are still working out their cycles in our charts, and these affect us in more personal ways.

We are affected by the atmosphere around us, both literal and psychic. I touched on this in the post on the 3 kinds of "karmic storms" we must learn to navigate. Because squares and oppositions trigger Karma, it is important to note that we've been living with oppositions for awhile. While squares put the brakes on things, oppositions put us on a seesaw between opposing possibilities or viewpoints, setting up polarizations and separations from old ways of life, old people, old ideals, old hopes and dreams.

This is a rewrite of something that may help explain why things happen as they do. I have observed there are two types of karma which I call "big K" and "little k" karma. These two types of karma are distinct and derive from different causes. Today we explore two types of "little k" karmic storm zones and one type of the "big K" karmic activity, so that we can sort out how to deal with what life puts on our plate.

I've been receiving a lot of mail about the different house systems and how they affect our charts, since which one we use can shift our planets from one house to another. This is important as it involves how we trisect the quadrants of our chart. I wrote this a while ago when I was told some people were flipping out over which system to use. Enjoy, since it's still very relevant and may help resolve any conundrum you may have about this rather obscure, but very important, subject.

While going through the archives, I found three articles that may prove comforting regardless of when we read them. The first, How To Deal With The General Weirdness of The Grand Irrationality offers suggestions on how to deal with the on-going pressure of the larger hard-edged weirdness of the times. The second, Light On The Path - Three Eternal Higher Truths, offers timeless touchstones for us humans, providing a beacon of reassurance in the midst of the generic uncertainty and seemingly chaotic changes of our times. The third is a gem from The Magic of Space, Angels, Devas, Healing, and Group Work. It promises that if we learn how to do our part within the larger group field, the "Invisible Host" surrounds us, ever willing and able to assist us to healing, health, and peace of mind.

The Void of Course (VOC) Moon is said to occur whenever the Moon makes no more aspects to any other transiting planet before it leaves the sign it's in. Traditionally, the only aspects considered in this way of viewing things are the conjunction, opposition, sextile, square, and trine. Supposedly the VOC Moon is a time when nothing happens of note, or whatever you do will not yield undesirable (or even desirable!) results, and is a metaphoric "black hole" into which our efforts fall into oblivion. It has been said that nothing of importance occurs during a "void of course" Moon. Is this true?